Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Insight-HXMT observations of jet-like corona in a black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070

  • Bei You,
  • Yuoli Tuo,
  • Chengzhe Li,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Shuang-Nan Zhang,
  • Shu Zhang,
  • Mingyu Ge,
  • Chong Luo,
  • Bifang Liu,
  • Weimin Yuan,
  • Zigao Dai,
  • Jifeng Liu,
  • Erlin Qiao,
  • Chichuan Jin,
  • Zhu Liu,
  • Bozena Czerny,
  • Qingwen Wu,
  • Qingcui Bu,
  • Ce Cai,
  • Xuelei Cao,
  • Zhi Chang,
  • Gang Chen,
  • Li Chen,
  • Tianxiang Chen,
  • Yibao Chen,
  • Yong Chen,
  • Yupeng Chen,
  • Wei Cui,
  • Weiwei Cui,
  • Jingkang Deng,
  • Yongwei Dong,
  • Yuanyuan Du,
  • Minxue Fu,
  • Guanhua Gao,
  • He Gao,
  • Min Gao,
  • Yudong Gu,
  • Ju Guan,
  • Chengcheng Guo,
  • Dawei Han,
  • Yue Huang,
  • Jia Huo,
  • Shumei Jia,
  • Luhua Jiang,
  • Weichun Jiang,
  • Jing Jin,
  • Yongjie Jin,
  • Lingda Kong,
  • Bing Li,
  • Chengkui Li,
  • Gang Li,
  • Maoshun Li,
  • Tipei Li,
  • Wei Li,
  • Xian Li,
  • Xiaobo Li,
  • Xufang Li,
  • Yanguo Li,
  • Zhengwei Li,
  • Xiaohua Liang,
  • Jinyuan Liao,
  • Congzhan Liu,
  • Guoqing Liu,
  • Hongwei Liu,
  • Xiaojing Liu,
  • Yinong Liu,
  • Bo Lu,
  • Fangjun Lu,
  • Xuefeng Lu,
  • Qi Luo,
  • Tao Luo,
  • Xiang Ma,
  • Bin Meng,
  • Yi Nang,
  • Jianyin Nie,
  • Ge Ou,
  • Jinlu Qu,
  • Na Sai,
  • Rencheng Shang,
  • Liming Song,
  • Xinying Song,
  • Liang Sun,
  • Ying Tan,
  • Lian Tao,
  • Chen Wang,
  • Guofeng Wang,
  • Juan Wang,
  • Lingjun Wang,
  • Wenshuai Wang,
  • Yusa Wang,
  • Xiangyang Wen,
  • Baiyang Wu,
  • Bobing Wu,
  • Mei Wu,
  • Guangcheng Xiao,
  • Shuo Xiao,
  • Shaolin Xiong,
  • Yupeng Xu,
  • Jiawei Yang,
  • Sheng Yang,
  • Yanji Yang,
  • Qibin Yi,
  • Qianqing Yin,
  • Yuan You,
  • Aimei Zhang,
  • Chengmo Zhang,
  • Fan Zhang,
  • Hongmei Zhang,
  • Juan Zhang,
  • Tong Zhang,
  • Wanchang Zhang,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Wenzhao Zhang,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Yifei Zhang,
  • Yongjie Zhang,
  • Yue Zhang,
  • Zhao Zhang,
  • Ziliang Zhang,
  • Haisheng Zhao,
  • Xiaofan Zhao,
  • Shijie Zheng,
  • Dengke Zhou,
  • Jianfeng Zhou,
  • Yuxuan Zhu,
  • Yue Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21169-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Evolution of accretion disk and corona during outbursts in black hole binary systems is still unclear. Here, the authors show spectral analysis of MAXI J1820+070 and propose a scenario of a dynamical corona to explain the evolution of the reflection fraction observed by Insight-HXMT.